It's what happens when you never leave your bubble

 

He'll be gone before the month is out.  Maybe even the week.

Ah, the memes

 

I'll not hold my breath

 

I won't take a bet on it.  Democrats have proven time and time again that they can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Hopefully, the new crop coming in can provide enough push to actually change that.

Apparently we owe a nod to Charlie Kirk

Someone told me today that Charlie had said Texas would not turn blue in his lifetime.

GOP 2026 FALLOUT

 Not gonna make an effort to keep up, but the first notices are already in.  (And Pete Hegseth will surely be along soon.)

Mike Johnson tucked his little arrogant mouse tail and is running from his House leadership job.

Are we rolling, Bob?

 

I'd love to say goodbye to Chuck.  (And take Hakeem with you.)

Taking down corporate money in politics

 

Will we see Wisconsin follow now that they elected el-Sayed with his call and reply campaign slogan:  "Money out of .... politics; Money in your .... pocket; Medicare for .... all" ?

Well deserved

The Trumps have enjoyed a highly lucrative two years, riding a wave of crypto deals and other business enterprises into billions of dollars in new wealth. But around 7:10 p.m. ET Tuesday night—as some of the early election results were just beginning to stream in—the first family’s fortunes changed.

That’s when markets started turning against some of the Trumps’ most valuable ventures. The drop started with the price of the $TRUMP meme coin—an essentially useless bit of crypto that the president helped create shortly before returning to office. Truthfully, $TRUMP has been a bit of a dud in terms of an investment for awhile—after hitting a high of $74, it has slid farther and farther; it was hovering around $1.60 through Tuesday afternoon and early evening. But then it dropped precipitously.

[...]

Something similar happened with the WLFI token—a crypto asset created by World Liberty Financial, the Trumps’ decentralized finance company. The token, which can be bought and sold but is mainly used to vote on decisions about the company’s operations, was worth about 5.1 cents at 7:10 p.m. By 8 p.m. it was worth 4.6 cents. The price briefly recovered overnight but plummeted again Wednesday, hovering around 4.7 cents by mid-afternoon.

Shares in Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of the president’s Truth Social platform, also took a nose-dive in after-hours trading, beginning a little after 7 p.m. The stock closed Tuesday at $5.95 per share. It opened Wednesday morning at $5.37. By Wednesday afternoon, it had fallen below $4.60, an all-time low.

[...]

If the Trump financial products have served as a way for people to win the president’s attention, ingratiate themselves, or just get as close as possible, the rebuke voters delivered to Trump last night instantly makes him, and his businesses, a less attractive investment.

  Mother Jones

It's going to be fun watching countries and companies who have been dancing with Trump start leaving him on the dance floor alone.

I won't be surprised if the Trumps all take their money and run to another country. In fact, Trump mentioned something about moving to Israel a couple days ago.

Good riddance.

Answering the question: What should Dems do first?

 Sideline Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.

It's not retribution: it's cleaning up the mess and preventing further corruption.

Hakeem should go outside AIPAC DC and actually find out what the American people want.

UPDATE 04:44 pm:

The message for the GOP couldn't be clearer

 

No more concerns from Susan Collins!  No more Lauren Boebert bullshit!  Ken Paxton, Greg Abbott, adios!  A black woman is going to be governor of Texas! Abdul el-Sayed won Michigan!

Look at all the flipped seats.  Finally, America understood the assignment.  They understood their interests.  It's a shame it took the near destruction of the country for them to do it, but, they did it.

A Fox News ("News") commentator this morning said he was surprised at the depth of the "tsunami", indicating that even state and local offices have flipped to Democrat.  Now, hold their feet to the fire, America.  And that goes double for Jeffries and Schumer.

Robert Garcia has warned the crooks and swindlers who have aided and abetted the Trump crime family to "lawyer up" - I expect there's a lot of that going on today.  

And I'm looking forward to the Trumps moving to another country.

“If we’re really going to take on the affordability crisis, we’ve got to take on the corruption of the Trumps because they’re stealing people’s money, their labor,” Garcia told Punchbowl News.

  LGBTQ Nation

And, speaking of another country, it's going to be fun seeing other countries who've been dancing to Trump's tune leave him standing alone on the dance floor.

And one last caution: 

Aside from all the crazy, dangerous shit Trump will pull between now and the new Congress, they're going to be pressuring Alito and Thomas to retire so they can replace them with young hard right MAGA judges (think Aileen Cannon) so they can hold SCOTUS for decades to come.  Democrats MUST attend to SCOTUS reform.  And stop going along with GOP appointments and maneuvers.

UPDATE 4:20pm:

I hear murmurings that Hegseth's job is on the line.  Stay tuned.

UPDATE 11/05/2026:

Actually, I think Justin Pearson in Georgia (narrowly) lost his seat due to the gerrymander there. That's the only one I know of, but there well be more.  I take Chris' point, though.  LOLOL